Our montage was entitled ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’ Using this prompt we created a mood board planning to video things that people would find beautiful for example flowers and books.

I think overall our montage has an impact however some clips were more impactful than others.

• • For example I think that the clip of the girls laughing at 0:06 effectively portrays the prompt as it represents the beauty of friendship and happiness, however the clip of the people holding hands is not as successful. This is because, as there was little movement in the shot, little emotion was portrayed.

There was not much sense of story with our montage, apart from the beginning and end clip of the eye opening and closing, however we wanted to portray the feeling of seeing beauty. I think a sense of story would’ve been better achieved if we used the same models throughout as the mixture of models made the montage difficult to follow.

Our montage is trying to reflect the expierience of seeing beauty and is not necesarily meant to progress as a narrative would. For this reason there is also no repeated shots. The montage is meant to show a variety of different things that people find beautiful therefore repeated shots would take away from the variety of shots.

To make our montage more effective I would add in a long shot of a stereotypically beautiful person as in our montage we lacked long shots. Also the typical idea of beauty would help represent our prompt and make it clear that beauty was the focus of our montage.

This task will be a great help when I come to make my music video as I now have an understanding of how to cut, reorder and edit clips. It has also helped me to get a grasp on what kind of shots are appropriate for certain situations as there were clips in our montage that could’ve been more successful.